Reading and Roaming
UNUSUAL INSTRUMENT For many of us, our first response when you mention an accordion is an oompah band or the Lawrence Welk show and Myron Floren. This week we had the distinct and unexpected pleasure of hearing a young Chinese woman demonstrate her virtuosity playing classical accordion. Her accordion is both heavy and elaborate. It weighs 45 pounds …
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AUTISM ON THE PAGE, STAGE AND SCREEN This week the island book club read and discussed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. The selection was prompted in part by the play being presented locally at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota. It has been so popular that the run has been extended …
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RECENT READING: Of Early Medicine and Botanical Gardens American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson. David Hosack was a citizen of the world, a man with wide ranging interests and connections who deserves to be better known. A physician by training, he was also a botanist who linked his interest in plants with …
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RECENT READING The Stargazer’s Sister by Carrie Brown If you are at all interested in astronomy, this is an engaging historical novel about Caroline Herschel, sister of famed German astronomer William Herschel. Lina, as she was known, was William’s younger sister by 12 years. Small and slight and scarred by a bout with smallpox, she never married and …
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